bread-never

Updated: May 6, 2025

Probably he had no responsibilities in the world, with no one to say him nay, himself only to consider in all the universe: a divine conception of adequate life. Yet himself, Charley Steele, an idler, a waster, with no purpose in life, with scarcely the necessity to earn his bread-never, at any rate, until lately was the slave of the civilisation to which he belonged.

Gilbert Parker - The Right of Way — Volume 02

Probably he had no responsibilities in the world, with no one to say him nay, himself only to consider in all the universe: a divine conception of adequate life. Yet himself, Charley Steele, an idler, a waster, with no purpose in life, with scarcely the necessity to earn his bread-never, at any rate, until lately was the slave of the civilisation to which he belonged.

Gilbert Parker - The Right of Way — Complete